Recommended Links of the Week (N°573)

Dropshipping, the Ahmes Papyrus, the downing that allowed us to use GPS, the Perseverance rover, courtship rituals, and much, much more, only in the Recommended Links of the Week. Plus viral videos and galleries for all tastes.

The teenage guru of Spanish 'dropshipping' deceives hundreds of clients and sells them Chinese sandals: "What Brocki —of German father, hence his surname— has set up is a 'dropshipping' business. 'Dropshipping' consists of reselling a product at a higher price without even seeing it, storing it, or managing its 'stock'. That is: you set up a website, advertise, and sell directly from the manufacturer, which is usually in China and is the one who sends the product. 'I have the feeling that everyone thinks it's a scam,' the businessman continues."

π and the Ahmes Papyrus: "The Ahmes Papyrus, also known as the Rhind Papyrus, is an Egyptian papyrus written by the scribe Ahmes (A’h-mosè) in the mid-16th century BC, during the reign of Apophis I. It is written in hieratic script (a type of writing that allowed Ancient Egyptian scribes to write quickly by simplifying hieroglyphs) and measures about six meters in length by 32 cm in width."

Haber–Bosch, the chemical process that fed the world: "Humboldt's writings led to the introduction of abundant South American guano in Europe, attracting worldwide interest for its enormous commercial value. In 1865, after altercations with Peru, Spain appropriated the Chincha Islands, which was answered with a declaration of war by the alliance between Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru."

The downing of a passenger plane allowed us to use GPS: "Korean Air Flight 007 took off on August 31, 1983 with 269 people on board. It departed from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport and its destination was Seoul. But it never landed there. After a few hours of flight, the autopilot deviated from the expected route, taking the plane into Russian territory. The pilots doubted the route but decided to trust the autopilot. The story of 007 is sad, but the downing of a passenger plane allowed us to use GPS for civilian purposes."

That was too close ... Five times nuclear war DIDN'T break out: "When you're so close to Armageddon, bad luck can push you to the limit. They almost did it in the past. Once again, as with many of my articles, I had difficulty keeping the number at five. I used my standard method to see which event had the highest probability of changing history, both in probability and impact."

Perseverance and Curiosity: two twin Martian rovers with different objectives: "Perseverance is the heaviest and most advanced vehicle built by humans that will move across the Martian surface. Its exterior appearance is almost identical to the Curiosity rover (MSL), but we must not fall into the error of thinking it is a simple copy. Because Perseverance has a fundamentally different objective from its twin brother: to find out if life emerged on Mars at some point in the past, an exciting objective like few others."

Leonardo da Vinci, the thousand and one ways in which the 'Vitruvian Man' reveals that the Italian artist was a genius: "It was the work of Leonardo da Vinci, and its name is the 'Vitruvian Man'. With it, he set out to capture, through science and art -which for him were one thing- the perfection of the human body. But in reality it is an answer to an ancient architectural problem about the relative proportions of buildings and men. Da Vinci's solution gave us a unique vision of the human body, obsessively symmetrical, apparently simple, but extraordinarily beautiful."

The myth of the outlaw biker: "The outlaw of the Wild West did what he considered he had to do. He formed gangs to support and shelter oneself, wandered the territory and established his own code, rigid norms of coexistence whose breach was severely punished. But his time passed by. They were swept away by the new century, swallowed up by technology and communications."

The strangest courtship rituals in the world: "Love sometimes hits hard: Cupid arrives with his arrows, shoots you, and you do all kinds of crazy things to conquer the person of your dreams. Maybe you're not looking for the love of your life, but just to have a good time and tomorrow on to something else, butterfly. Whatever it is, courtship is an essential ritual in that human being who feels butterflies in the stomach. Perhaps for that reason, throughout history and to this day, the most incredible tricks and techniques to woo someone have followed one another. Today we put on Casanova's disguise and travel the world looking for the most incredible courtship rites."

Fairies, spirits and Houdini: how they deceived Arthur Conan Doyle, the father of 'Sherlock Holmes': "Toward the end of his life, Doyle intensified an aspect that challenged him personally: the paranormal. As early as 1887, being a successful author, he joined the Portsmouth Literary and Philosophical Society, where he conducted a series of investigations into the possibility of psychic phenomena. In that context, he attended about 20 sessions where telepathy was practiced or there were mediums."

Polynesians and Native Americans had contact before the arrival of Europeans: "Scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine, in the United States, and their collaborators, through deep genetic analysis, have found conclusive scientific evidence of contact between ancient Polynesians and Native Americans from the region that is now Colombia, something that has been highly disputed in the historical and archaeological world for decades, as they publish in the journal 'Nature'."

Does homeopathy increase the size of the penis? Well, it's going to be no: "The authors of the study indicated in the article that neither of the two homeopathic preparations modified the copulatory behavior of the animals. However, when analyzing their data with two different statistical tests, surprisingly one of them gave them statistical significance, so they concluded that in one of the cases there was a..."

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GALLERIES: the elderly Japanese man who paints works of art in Excel, the Russian soul in photographs, sites that look like old desks, the beauty of women from different nations, riding zebras, cartoon characters with tan lines, the art of Lera Kiryakova, photos of dogs to adopt, the digital collages of Harriet Moutsopoulos, ecological systems in bottles, zombies in quarantine, pretty women vs COVID-19 in Russia, Chinese nail protectors, more photos of Sissy Spacek, eleven soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, the Animated Dump of the Week and the Visual Dump.

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